Abstract:
As lateral means to a dramatic end, my early solo initiatives Whwymgb?, Pecu, amnd and Opæan defined a surprisingly coherent project, providing material and direction for all subsequent collaboration. Primarily, I would lead Psychological Art Circus to create a body of theatrical work guided by the lives of three seers, Anna O., Olive Pixley, and in Illusions of Reference the Oracle, Pythia.
After Illusions, I began to discover the conceptual framework for a three-ring circus through an exploration of the Occitan Persian mystic Fin' al-Mantiq. The findings of my sustained research — visual, sonic, and systematic — now form the subject matter for a series of hybrid lecture performances.